I love the "Nevada Day" episodes, but here's the one problem I've always had with it. Bare with me here...
A BIG part of the charges against Tom in Nevada were his supposed "use" of marijuana. They are very specific that "In Nevada, possession is just a misdemeanor, but use is a felony. This joint is half smoked suggesting use". (Again, I'm saying a big part of his charges, not what brought him there, the charges)
So here is the chain of events:
Tom gets arrested in California, and the cops there run his record and find the warrant from Nevada.
Nevada cops come to California, and take him into custody.
Once in the Nevada police station, the joint is found.
Well, unless the cops are going to claim that Tom smoked up in the back of the police car on the way to Nevada, even if it WAS his joint and he DID smoke it, the crime that they are charging him with took place outside of their jurisdiction.
So isn't the "use" charge just BS?
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joeishotterthantimberflake
9 years ago
Also, would the cops in Nevada really undertake a 540-mile road trip to arrest a guy who has a traffic ticket? I know the judge said the FTA made it a felony, but that's a very expensive trip at the taxpayer's expense.
Also, shouldn't Tom have been entitled to some type of extradition hearing? Neither crime he committed was a federal offense, so he should have stayed in state court and if the state of Nevada wants to prosecute him, they have to officially ask the state of California to send him to them.
The short and easy answer is, Aaron Sorkin will never let small facts get in the way of telling a good story.
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